Fundamentalists, racists, violent religious fanatics and organic farming

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A couple of our hipster volunteers are looking to spend some time at an organic sustainable agriculture mountain farm in the neighbouring Romania after our project. It turns out many of these remote farms have something like this as part of their requirements for volunteers:

"We do not accept fundamentalists, rasist or violent behaviored, relegiosly fanatic people." [sic]

It seems that Romania's remote mountain farms have become popular with violent fundamentalists and racist religious fanatics lately, which is unfortunate. However, a serious increase in interest in sustainable organic farming among these guys might be a good sign. I think that there is a bit more hope for a violent racist religious fundamentalist with a passion for composting and herbal tinctures than there is for just a violent racist religious fundamentalist.

Comments

[apinkpanthress.livejournal.com]

I always say, violent racists and/or religious fundamentalists/fanatics have nothing to do just with Islam, it's evident in every religion & race on this planet.
Only the amount differs from regions & eras.

Very sad, that almost no country is without terrorism these days.

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Actually in Romania and here in Moldova when they say "religious fanatics" 99 out of 100 cases they mean their own Christian folks not Muslims I think, like it would be in Western Europe these days. There are almost no Muslims here, especially in the country side.

[apinkpanthress.livejournal.com]

Exactly, that's what I mean! :)

But you don't hear that in german, american, french TV... it's only on TV if it happens in West Eruope & USA, and if the Terrorists are muslims... they're basically saying "Fuck Romania, Moldova, Turkey, etc..." as soon as it doesn't fit in their scheme.

They found out about a Serial Killer in Germany this year, but it was only once or twice on TV and then it was all like, oh well, he was maybe mentally ill.
Or the Nazis/Skinheads, which are in prison for killing and bombing Turks, Greeks & Arabs in Germany over a course of 10 years... you almost never see tv coverage on that story. :(

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Since I have never had a TV (I also grew up in a house without one), I don't really have a good feeling about how biased or not it is. I am also keeping up with the news via press and internet less and less every year.

In Romania and Moldova "religious fanatic" usually doesn't mean violence or terrorist attacks. From what I have seen, they are mostly just annoying here, volunteering their views when nobody asked for them, shaming people as "godless", etc. Moldovans are a very non-violent bunch.